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NOVANEWS …In Israel, it has been “Arizona” all along!  (by Assaf Oron, crossposted from his DailyKos diary) I am encouraged by the wave of justified indignation, and spontaneous boycott movement, against the new Arizona law. Indeed, requiring citizens and legal resident to carry proof of their status at all times, and encouraging police to profile passersby who “look suspicious”, runs counter to the soul of democracy. The bigots who put together the Arizona law should be made to pay. And hopefully it will be declared unconstitutional. This is also a teaching opportunity, to explain why the country I come from, Israel, has never really lived up to its “Middle East’s Only Democracy” (TM) branding. See? In Israel, laws like the Arizona one – and worse – have been in effect ever since indepe...

NOVANEWS This is a beautifully written and sympathetic letter addressed to Dr Richard Goldstone, from 25 souls out of a few million, and I am sure Dr Goldstone appreciates their sympathy. Dear Judge Goldstone, As rabbis from diverse traditions and locations, we want to extend our warmest mazel tov [congratulations or good luck] to you as an elder in our community upon the Bar Mitzvah [male coming of age] of your grandson. Bar and Bat Mitzvah [i.e. male and female coming of age] is a call to conscience, a call to be responsible for the welfare of others, a call to fulfil the covenant of peace and justice articulated in our tradition. As rabbis, we note the religious implications of the report you authoured. We are reminded of Shimon Ben Gamliel’s quote, “The world stands on three things: j...

NOVANEWS by Bob Higgins * By Gideon Levy Haaretz * Water trickles quietly down the rock, sending grasshoppers skittering to safety as it flows into two small ponds at the foot of the hill. Fields of stubble glisten in the valley below. A gentle wind breezes by. It’s an enchanting landscape, but the abiding tranquility is just an illusion. The waters of the spring are pure, but nothing here is clean. Like a rising fountainhead, the battle for this spring has thrust another Palestinian village into what has become known as the “white intifada.” For the past four months, the residents of the village of Nabi Saleh, accompanied by left-wing activists from Israel and abroad, have staged demonstrations over the spring, which settlers have appropriated for themselves. One more piece of stolen p...

NOVANEWS GORDON DUFF: STAGE BEING SET FOR “DIRTY BOMB” FALSE FLAG  by Gordon Duff “CHATTER” FLOWING IN FROM EVERYWHERE “SUITCASE” NUKE SAID TO BE IN PLACE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Rumors of an upcoming terror attack to be blamed on Iran are moving around the world, “backchannel chatter.”  The primary suspect is Israel who is said to have a number of small “suitcase” type nuclear weapons, some primarily “dirty bombs,” possibly supplied secretly by a previous US administration.  These devices are in the “40 ton” range, highly radioactive, extremely small and can be engineered to leave the signature of a primitive device.  They were originally designed for use against Soviet armor and troop concentrations in Europe if a massed attack on NATO were to occur.  Current convent...

NOVANEWS City Husting 22nd April 2010 Video <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> Ladywood Hustings <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> Saturday 1st of May 4 pm Shaheed Udham Singh Centre, 346 Soho  Road, Handsworth Birmingham B21 9QL All Ladywood Candidates invited <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> 

NOVANEWS Dear Candidate I am writing to you as the elections approaches about my concern on Human Rights both in the UK and internationally. I am particularly concerned about the impact that the erosion of human rights and civil liberties is having on some of our communities. I would therefore like our candidates in the upcoming elections to commit themselves to upheld human rights for all and improve the lot of some of our most vulnerable communities. I ask all candidates to commit themselves to improving the conditions of asylum seekers, in particular by: · granting all asylum seekers the right to work; · Ending forced evacuation to countries where asylum seekers’ safety cannot be guaranteed; · Grnting full benefits to asylum seekers; · Giving asylum seekers the same access to the Nation...

NOVANEWS Jewish organisations team up to fight political racism By Jessica Elgot, April 22, 2010 More than 50 religious organisations have lent their support to a pledge which asks UK citizens to use their votes to help fight racism and discrimination in politics. Although the pledge does not specifically name the British National Party as the target, it urges voters to be “aware of the political forces who would seek to divide our country by promoting ideology of racism and prejudice.” The initiative, organised by the Board of Deputies, 'the Jewish Council for Racial Equality and the Three Faiths Forum, has signed up 56 organisations to the pledge. It states: “We are immensely proud of the fundamentally British characteristics of equality, respect and fairness and of Brit...

NOVANEWS SHAME ON YOU ZIONIST BROWN The Prime Minister fields questions on peace in the Middle East, the Dubai passport scandal, faith schools and JFS, the rise of antisemitism and attacks the Tories for their far-right allies. By Martin Bright, April 22, 2010 What would a new Labour government do to kick-start talks in the Middle East in order to bring about over a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict? I was incredibly proud to be the first British Prime Minister to address the Knesset and as long as I am Prime Minister Israel will always have the firmest of friends in the British Government. The Israeli and Palestinian people’s both deserve the lasting peace and shared prosperity that can only come with a just two-state solution, and I am determined to do all I c...

NOVANEWS SHAME ON YOU BROWN Gordon Brown: Tory extremists betray British values Exclusive: PM lambasts Cameron for ‘appeasing’ Tory fanatics in EU alliance By Martin Bright, April 21, 2010 Brown: Cameron's EU allies betray British principles Gordon Brown has accused the Conservatives of compromising British values and British influence by allying with “marginalised” figures in Europe accused of holding extremist antisemitic and homophobic views. In a fiercely worded attack in an interview with the JC, the Prime Minister said the Opposition leader had abandoned the mainstream grouping of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in order to appease a section of “fanatical” Eurosceptic backbenchers. Mr Brown significantly raised the temperature in the ...

NOVANEWS “THERE SHOULD BE NO MERCY SHOWN TO ANY living Nazi war criminals regardless of their age.”This was declared by the German Zionist, Charlotte Knobloch, President of the Central Council Of Jews In Germany, upon the arrival of 89 year-old John Demjanjuk from the United States on May 12, 2009. Although never found guilty before a jury of his peers, Demjanjuk faces charges filed against him by German Jews that he was an “accessory to murder” in connection with his alleged time as a guard at the Sobibor internment camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Demjanjuk’s sorry plight began in 1986, when he was stripped of his US citizenship and deported to Israel when accused by Zionist leaders of being “Ivan the Terrible” - a notorious prison guard at the Treblinka internment camp. The Zionist Supreme...